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These movies exist because audiences keep paying money to see CGI explodium with cliched plots and writing. These are cash cow movies generated on a production
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
These movies exist because audiences keep paying money to see CGI explodium with cliched plots and writing. These are cash cow movies generated on a production line with fungible components where the cows are the audiences.
Hollywood can do better when it wants to. But visual SF is a nostalgic cliche-saturated form now, and original ideas are High Risk and unlikely to get the green light unless they're being pushed hard by a big name director. And sometimes not even then.
- Jiro 5y agoBig budget superhero movies are perfectly capable of failing because of bad writing and directing regardless of the CGI, and many of them have, particularly many DC movies. By your theory, Justice League should have made a fortune.
- Joeboy 5y agoWikipedia says it made $657.9m against a budget of £300m. I think the rule of thumb is movies need to make double their production budget to be profitable. So it seems like it did at least OK, financially
- sidlls 5y agoBatman vs. Superman and Justice League were both very much unjustly maligned superhero movies. They suffered from the same "big cgi fx" problem all modern superhero movies do, but the stories themselves were far better than the one-dimensional, flat dreck Marvel has been putting out the last decade. I mean, they're superhero movies, so they're about characters that are mostly one-dimensional anyway, but at least these two tried to push the boundaries a bit.